The findings, many educators said, will surprise many teachers and administrators and could help them.

The new findings surprised the 78 cancer experts who directed the original studies.

The findings in mental illness surprised even the study's authors.

Experts said that although the new findings would not surprise anyone who has examined nursing homes, they are still disturbing.

Those findings may surprise or dismay others, but they are accepted as commonplace by social scientists familiar with similar polls and studies.

Our findings are quite dramatic and will surprise many physicians.

The survey's findings surprised many senior officials at the Pentagon, who had publicly played down the extent of harassment only a few months ago.

Most are unaccustomed to such close internal scrutiny, and sometimes the findings surprise them.

But if the findings, published in 1996, surprised most scientists, recent research has left them flabbergasted.

The finding did not altogether surprise the team.